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A. P. HOWES.

FAUGBT.

Da/117,916. Patented Deo. 24, 1889..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT P. I'IOVES, OF VOR'OESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF TVO- THIRDS TO EDMUND CONVERSE AND AMBROSE T. MATTHEVS, OF SAME PLACE.

FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,916, dated December 24, 1889.

Application iiled November 7', 1888. Serial No. 290,246. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom. t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. HowEs, a v citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following, together with the accompanying drawings, is a specification suiiiciently full, clear, and exact to enable persons 1o skilled in the art to which this invention appertains to make and use the same.

The objects of my present invention are to provide in a faucet of that class wherein an inverted cup is arranged over the valve-puppet a lug or stud disposed eccentric to the disk of the puppet and for causing the cup to close upon and leave its seat in a slightlyinclined manner, as hereinafter explained.

Another object is to provide in a faucet of zo the class named a screw in combination with a lifting-lever for raising the nozzle and opening the valve, as hereinafter explained.

These objects I attain by mechanism such as shown and described, the particular subz 5 ject-matter claimed being hereinafter definitely specified.

In the drawings, Figure l is a transverse section at line IV W, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section at line X X, showing a faucet 3o embracing myimprovements. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section at line y y. Fig. 4t is a trans.

verse section at line ,e e. Fig. 5 is a plan of the lifting-lever separate. Fig. -6 is a top view of the valve-puppet, and Fig. 7 shows 3 5 the packing-disk and its shell or case.

Referring to parts, A indicates the body or shell of the faucet provided with suitable means for attachment to the `supply-pipe and having the inlet-passage m, a chamber E for 4o the valve-puppet B and cup devices C, and a downwardly-pro j ectin g extension A thro ugh which the exit-passage a is formed and upon which the discharge-nozzle D works up and down,'the valve-seat c., cup-seating surface a3, inclosing-cap A2, and valve-lifting step F being constructed and arranged substantially as illustrated and described in Letters Patent No. 388,362 heretofore granted me.

In my present improvement the lifting lever I is made substantially as shown in 5o Figs. 2 and 5, and is centrally fulcrumed to the body at K, with its forward ends I extending to the sides of the nozzle D and engaging beneath its flange D', while its rear end extends backward beneath the faucetneck and is turned upward at the extremity or provided with a lug o' to strike the under part of the body and prevent the nozzle from dropping lower than is necessary for closing the valve. The neck of the faucet in rear of 6o the head is provided with a screw-threaded opening G, said neck being somewhat enlarged, and the inletpassage m being divided, as at m, by a solid column of metal g, through which the opening extends, as indicated. A screw-spindle II, having a suitable thumb head or handle H', is litt-ed in said opening G, with its rounded lower end h below the neck in position ,to operate the lifting-leverI by pressing on its top surface. A pin r, in- 7o serted through the lower end of the screw with its ends projecting therefrom, serves as a guard'to prevent the screw from being turned out.

The valve-spindle B', which is screw- 75 threaded along its upper part, is made to receive and support the valve-pad or packingdisk B, which latter is held in position thereon by the top piece or upper part of the puppet B2, screwed onto said spindle, as shown. 8o This pad or disk is composed of asemi-elastic packing substance b, Fig. 7, embedded within and permanently incased by a thin metallic casing b in such a manner that the casing and packing substance are practically integral, and are made as follows: The metallic case is punched, as a disk, from thin sheet metal, and is then die-drawn in the manner of seamless ferrules to form the cylindrical iiangef. Its edge s is then squared, and a 9o hole n; for the valve -spindle is punched through the center, thus making a thimble or curp such as shown in section, Fig. 7. Vulcanizable or se1ni-elastic packing compound (of ingredients such as heretofore used for packings, preferably that known as Jenkins packing) is molded into this case or thimble, its face covered with a iiat plate having a be Very economically made and quickly and cheaply renewed, and avoids any necessity of dressing or filing off the packing substance to make a proper fit with the puppet or the valve-seat, as is usually required with the ordinary packing-disks.

In the top 4side of the puppet-head B2 and eccentric to the puppet axis l place a smallf pin or stud n, that projects sufficiently farl above the surface of the puppet-head to `strike the shoulder c of the valve-cup C when vopenl ing the faucet before `other portions of the` disk A'engage therewith, thus causing said cup when lifted to take aslightly-inclined ,posi-l tion as it leaves or approaches its seat as; 'Bythus lifting the cupfrom one side it starts 'with an easy action against the force or pressure of the water, and it is also preventedI when dropped from striking full `upon-the seat lor checking the iiow beneath its edgef otherwise lthan in a gradual and noise'less manner. The inclined surfaces a around the seat a3 serve to maintain the cup 'C central with 'said seat, notwithstanding the inclination imparted bythe stud fn when lifting it.

I 'am aware that a screw arranged through a "pivoted lever 'connected by links witha sliding nozzle has been employed for lifting a valve in a faucet, and l de not desire to be understood as including such a construct-ion as within the scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention to be secured by Letters Patent- A l. In combination with a faucet-body, its movable nozzle and valve-puppet, the liftinglever centrally fulcrumed on said body, as at K, and engaging by arms l with a iiange on said nozzle, and the operating-screw H,arranged through a screw-threaded opening in the neck of t-he body and engaging at its lower end with said lifting-lever for operating the faucet, as set forth.

. 2. In combination with the faucet-body, its movable nozzle and valve-puppet, the liftinglever fulcrumed at K and having forwardlyextending arms that lengage the nozzle, and a'backwardly-eXtendi-ngarm provided with a stop-lug'or turned-up end t', and the operating-screw H, fitted in the body to turn down upon said lever, substantially Vas and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the body having valve-seat a and surrounding sea-t a?, the loose inverted cup C, and the valve-puppet, of the ystud n, disposed on said lvalve-puppet atan eccentric position forfengaging said cup at one side'of .its shoulder' to lift and Asupport it 'slightly inclined, substantially as vand for the purpose set forth.

W itness'my hand this '5th day'of November, A. D. 1888.

ALBERT P. .d ILOXNES.

NVitnesses:

CHAs. H. BURLEIGH, ELLA P. BLENUs. 

